On 4 October 1936, fascists and anti-fascists clashed in London's East End, when Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts marched through ...
To celebrate BBC History Magazine’s 20th birthday in 2020, we asked 20 experts to nominate a historical enigma that they’d dearly love to see solved. Later, we released a series of podcasts that ...
Test your knowledge on the Elizabethan period, from Elizabeth I’s court to the Spanish Armada… Lauren Good is the digital ...
Explore the story of Stanislav Petrov, the Soviet officer who prevented a potential nuclear catastrophe during the height of ...
Hailed as the “foremother of feminism”, Mary Wollstonecraft shook up 18th-century Britain with her barnstorming treatises on ...
In a career that went from gracing the cover of Vogue to capturing the horrors of war zones and Nazi death camps, Lee Miller is remembered for defying expectations at every turn. Once a model, muse ...
It’s often said that it feels like we, in the third decade of the 21st century, live in an ‘Orwellian’ age. Our likenesses and movements are captured by omnipresent CCTV cameras; our innermost ...
When the adoptive brothers Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus became co-rulers in AD 161, the Roman empire was enjoying a golden age of progress, prosperity and peace. For nearly 200 years – going back ...
Inscribed on the stone fireplace of the State Dining Room of the White House are the words: “I pray to Heaven bestow the best of blessings on this house and all that shall hereafter inhabit it. May ...